Lina Allemano's Sunday night slot fell once more on Thanksgiving weekend — but with Allemano still over in Berlin, Karen Ng was delegated to bring pie and music in her absence. Ng assembled this ad hoc quartet with Nick Bulligan on trumpet and Andrew Furlong on double bass — and it was rather nice to see that Dave Clark is getting back behind the drumkit as well. The tunes — two sets' worth — were provided by Ornette Coleman, giving the crew frameworks for some harmolodic explorations. There were pleasing sounds throughout, but perhaps the best results came at the evening's end with this one two punch, combining a beautifully drone-y move-while-staying-in-place take on "Lonely Woman" with a roller-coaster ride through "The Sphinx".

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Founded as a blog about one curmudgeon's love affair with the em dash, Mechanical Forest Sound has grown to become a community-based archive of local musical culture. Assuming that "independent music" isn't just boys with guitars and "culture" isn't just some sort of pageant, MFS is an investigation of a wide range of artists, reflecting on concerts as shared experiences, acts of citizenship and a chance to get down — fuzzy photographs and clear-sounding original live recordings a specialty.

Current manifestations of this project include Track Could Bend, a monthly concert series featuring "improvised music and weird rock offshoots", presented in a casual environment.

At one point I wrote full-on concert reviews, and for longer I thought I would catch up and write about shows in the past. But these days, because of, y'know, life, do not expect much in the way of full show reviews — but live recordings with blurbs will be posted as quickly after the fact as is feasible.

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